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Victoria, B. Cc.

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No tax -
increase

The Hon. D.L. - Brothers,
Minister of Education,
announced: last week that
increased grants to: school
districts| under the education
finance formula and increased
grants for colleges will result in
there being practically - no
increase in the: Province-wide
average school mill rate and,
because of the increase in the
Home OQwner -Grant, the
majority of residential
property-owners should have a
‘reduction in local school taxes
for 1971, —— - 7

The Provincial Gevernment
has provided “$172,000,000 for
direct grants to school districts
for elementary and secondary
Schools. In addition to: this
amount, the Government’ sas
provided $7,680,000 on behalf of
school districts for. teachers’
superannuation and $14,000,000
for college grants to schoc!
districts. Also, to reduce loca:
school taxes on residential
property-owners’ the
Government has increased the
- Home Owner Grant from $160 tc.
$170. and provided $60,500 009 for
this purpose. These combined
figures for this year. make a
total of $254,190,000 in: grants
and payments for the school
districts' education costs,

Cont'd on Page 2

Liquor |
board |
chairman

named

Attorriey-General.,..-Leslie- -

Peterson has announced the,

appointment of Williém ‘Bruce *

as Chairman of the Liquor

Control Board of British

Columbia.’ The appointment

was made by Cabinet through

Order-in-Council upon the

recommendation of Attorney-
' General Peterson,

Mr. Peterson said, “Since ‘bis
appointment, as Acting
Chairman in 1969, Mr. Bruce
has demonstrated a tremendaus
knowledge and administrative
ability in the functions of the
Board and its offices. He has.
‘served the Board for 24 years,
and his experience is a great
asset." .

Bill Bruce, 55 was born in
Vancouver and attended school
there before jaining the British
Columbia Police Force in 1935.
In 1947 he transferred to the
Liquor Contre]. Board as

its,

, Eighty-two Trumpeter swans
lens.Mud Lake is one-half mile

mud to get close to the swans,

were floating sereneh n Mud

off’ Highway 16.Tess.

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MONDAY, MAY 3,-1971 TERRACE, B.C.,

mi
Lake the day

eee

Tess Brousseau iteok this photo with telephoto
rousseau Struggied through waist-deep snow, wet undergrowth and

No word from Ottawa
on youth employment >

Forty-three students will be
employed to work on recreation
and conservation projects in the
Terrace area if the Involved
Youth Project budget is granted

Inspector in Victoria, and fora by the federal government, '

number of years in Vancouver.

Community Resources

Youth hostels

encourage travel

BY DIANASMITH .

~A youth hostel in Terrace?
What do people think of the
‘idea?’
Not necessarily the
temporary ‘crash-pad'-type
hostel’ set-up during the
summer. for roving bands of
transient ‘youth but, more the
kind run by the Canadian Youth

Hostel Association who. run 45-:.-

* hostels across Canada.

As their brochure states; the’
¥.H.A. is. ‘a’ non-profit
recreation: and youth travel
assocation; founded ‘in ©1984.

One of the principal aims of the ‘

organization is to help young
people — to

and other lands. and their

people. _
‘It achieves this primarily by

providing youth hostels - each . - Monday mainly cloudy; _ few

under’ the care’ of «a
“houseparent”.. ~.. where
comfortable . ‘lodging . | is
available at a minimum. cost,’

Wonld. this ‘be:-a more
acceptable type hostel: over the
kind.currently being set-up in-

the lower mainland and at other -

towns and cities in Canada?.

‘*, The princlpal ‘at Skeena’

‘, Junior Secondary. School, Don

‘Cunningham, said: there {s a.

need In Terrace for gome kind of

facllities for-young people who
are travelllrig but not as great a:

 nged'as in the lower mainland,
’ He favors the kind of-hostels.

‘a. ° greater ©
- understanding of their own Jand °°

- Pretipitation’’

” motorists and hitch-bikers who

pay & nominal overnight fee,
“T'm all for.the 10 speed bike
craze”, he said and mentioned
the enthusiasm of some of the
boys who travelled to Victoria
recently where . a’ noticeable

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Committee chairman Wilber
James. and . Assistant
Recreation Director Elaine
Parmenter prepared the youth
employment program brief
which was presented to the
federal state department
opportunities for youth
program, with a request. tor

360.90 -
ames and Parmenter spent

more than 100 man-hours
preparing the program which
ealls for the employment of 43

-youths in diverse jobs for up to '

four months at monthly salaries

ranging from $250 to $500.
The highest-paid person will
a coordinator who wil!
Teceive $500.a month. The co-
ordinator is expected to hire
‘and place all personnel and
report on project development
to the Community Resources
Committee He will also act as
counsellor, . trauble-shooter,
lime-keeper afd book-keeper.
A supervisor will be
appointed to assign specific
jobs, schedule shifts-and check
regularly on progress.
Committee believes that the job

The’

requires a person with some

‘engineering experience.

The program calls for forty
‘more students to work as trail
blazers, lifeguards, playground
leaders; camp’ advisors, and a

variety of jobs on beaches and
- parks.

Trail blazers will work at
clearing existing trails and
opening up new ones which lead

‘to sites of historic interest, The

brief states that hiking
activities would inerease as

Cont'd on Page 2

ae

FINED ON THREE COUNTS

Optometrist
found g

. Terrace optometrist Scot K. Hambley was fined a

total of $375 Thursday on two counts under the
Medical Act and a third under the Optometry Act.

Hambley was found guilty on
two counts under the Medical
Act - unlawfully practicing
medicine and using the title
“doctor”. He pleaded guilty to
a third count under the
Optometry Act of failing to keep
a notice bearing his name and
the title ‘‘optometrist'’
continuously displayed in his
affice,

Provincial Court Judge D.K.
McAdam fined 50-year-old
Hambley $250 on the first. count,
$100 on the second count, and
$25 on the third count.
Maximum penalties for the first
two counts are $500, and $100 for

_ the third,

Charges against Hambley
were laid by the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of
British Columbia. He was
accused of unlawfully
practicing medicine by treating
two eye ailments - crass
dominance and dyslexia.

Earlier in the trial Dr, Merill
Woodruff, a professor of
optometry at | Waterloo
University, said. optometry
students at that college are
taught the treatment Hambley
is said to have practiced in
Terrace.

(Hambley has practiced in
Terrace for two years. He isa
graduate of
Waterloo.) 2

Woodruff - his’

said. Jin

testimony that an optometrist is oe

concerned with: more. than the
human eye and ‘is. trained to
deal with “depth perception”
and ‘visual function’.

The term ‘visual function”
and its definition was a
significant point in the trail.

Judge McAdam, in his written |

reasons for the decision, stated
“The evidence of Dr. Woodruff
leaves me unconvinced as to the
precise definition for the words
“visual function” which is. the
matter that has to he
determined,”

Earlier in the trial Dr. John
Pratt-Johnson, an
opthalmologistand UBC faculty
member, had testified that the
cause of dyslexia was -not
precisely known. ‘‘....but it is
presumed itlies in the brain and
what is known is that it has
nothing to do with the eyes per
se. It is a perceptual problem
which relates it immediately to
the higher brain centers,”

Pratt-Johnson emphasised
that the eyes play no part in the
dyslexia problem. He said that
once primary dyslexia has been
identified, an opthalmologist
has no role in treatment of the
defect because “it is a

the University af

perceptual defect, not an eye
defect.”

Pratt-Johnson had aslo
testified that the eye condition
described as cross dominance |
does not necessarily mean there
is anything wrong with the eyes.

“If your sight was better in
ond eye than in the other, you
might prefer the eye for that
reason.. This is not a brain
dominated reason, it is purely
that you see better in one eye,”
said Pratt-Johnson.

McAdam wrotein his reasons:
“We have evidence from Dr.
Pratt-Johnson that there is very
little if anything in the way of.
treatment for the condition
known as dyslexia that can be
provided by anybody in the field
of apthalmology or for that
matter in the field of
optometry......the tréatment of
this type of condition is one of a
purely psychological nature,"

uilty

‘ expert . witnesses

va

“Again, from “both expert
witnesses’ evidence taken ag a
whole, the condition of cross
dominance would appear to be
susceptible to self-treatment
and if harmfull at all, is subject.
to self correction.”' ot -

“There may have been an
optimistic, theoretical desire ta
achieve ‘something that. would
provide a remedial change in:
the condition, but such form of
treatment would not appear to
have much change of success,’'

“There is, of course, in this
type of treatment that the
defendant was involved in, the
Additional feature that he was .
also involved in the treatment of.
dyslexia beeause both the
(Pratl-
Johnson and Woodruff) bear out
that what.he was involved in
was something over and. above
treatment of an eye condition.” -

Judge McAdam's verdict
brings to a close the tria] which
was considered to be a test case
for optometrists practicing in
Brilish Columbia. :

Fortune buried

in. local

pretty rondon and Totem
everage Ltd. bury. $500 a week.
in thé ay dang as .

‘That's the value of sof drink

“cans and bottles returned by

consumers to the two bottle.

return depots .in Terrace,
People who return cans and

bottles get 2c per item refunded

Musicians
coming

OTTAWA The federal -
government has provided a
grant of $3,000 to assist student
musicians at Oakwood
Collegiate Institute in Toronto
to carry out an exchange
program with others | in
Terrace, B.C. Loe

Announcement of the grant

‘was made by Robert Stanbury,

minister responsible’ ‘for
vitizenship, and Paul:
Hellyer, the federal member for
‘Irinity, .

The grant is designed to help —
young’ Canadians acquire a
greater knowiedge of their
country through’ travel and
intercharige of ideas with youth:
in other ‘parts of Canada,

day frei’ an “individual?

dump

at the depot, which will accept a
maximum:of eighteen bottles

. » The restriction .was-imposed
to- discourage people from

picking up bottles at the. city

dump and returning them to the

depot for a second refund,
Condon says the provincial

- litter legislation has been

successful in keeping battles off
the street, He says local-soft
drink companies instituted the
bottle depots: fo assist in the
provincial anti-litter campaign,
Totem Beverages paid out
$2,000 for. bottle and ‘can .
disposal facilities during. the-
first three months of 1971.

_No fine —
on books’

. Uverdue books may. b
relurned to Terrace: Public
Library without penalty
during Library Week, May Zt
sth, inclusive. ,

--Librarian Mien Van Heek
Says she expects that
hundreds of books which'were
borrowed from. the - library
between 1968 and 1971 will be
brought back inte circulation,
»-The fine-free week. will

Columbia. :

apply to all libraries in Dritish]

percentage of paople were on - 4
two wheels instead of four... _

_ Cunningham said he worried
that a hostel in Terrace might

said he realized it will be hard

for young people to find jobs this’

Summer, -- .

become ‘‘a hippie hang-out" but -

He feels it’s a good idea.to . fam

encourage young people - to

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FORECAST FOR MAY 3-6

showers,. «A. clearing: trend
Tuesday night: Temperatures
for the two days in the mid 89's,

_Wednesday- will be mainly

sunny” with’ some”. cloud
coverage on = ‘Thursday: '

Temperatures: in. the: low 60°s,

“.-: HIGH LOW PRECIP ™:
April 2952 96.7 QL ee
April30. 53 34 traceofrain. ~
April summary; -A Kttle-codler

_ and welter-than-tsyal.
Average ‘temperature:
High 70-426th),

Low -.27-(1ath)-"..
3.2 inche:

“travel and finds that they tend.

£00 in damages res

than

AY at the intersection of Otfawa

Saturday at the intersect
RCMP Patrol car‘driven by’.

uted fro:

table

€

na vehicle driven by Herb Spencer, 78, of Torrace, made a:

nd ‘turi: onto

‘Ottawa ‘Street: between patrol car ‘snd

Be

t-of collision forced police vehicle into:

Pp
truck det

I ar’ G2" ; 18: Of
‘they -have-in Europe.which © snow. Total ‘precipitation 3,81
Sige Roy iven by Ronald Fleming, which was. -

accomodate young cyclists,’ inches, :

ny

reuing a ‘speeding motor